More than 200,000 in the U.S. on H-1B visas could lose legal status by June

LA Times ^ | APRIL 28, 2020 | OLIVIA CARVILLE AND SHELLY BANJO

[fieldmarshaldj]

We need to assimilate the people we already have. 3 million every decade is 3 million too many.

[central_va]

Could. Don’t worry Jarvanka™ is on the case to make sure American IT workers will continue to get the shaft.

[JZelle]

Just call Mike Lee, he’ll go all out for you.

[Cowboy Bob]

There’s risk in either approach because employers who treat workers differently based on their immigration status expose themselves to potential discrimination lawsuits

H-1B workers don't have an immigration status. They are temporary workers. They are just tourists with the right to work.

[NobleFree]

[DEPcom]

“Others are choosing to keep H-1B workers on staff to maintain their legal status, while firing U.S. workers.”

Remember that company Walt Disney outsource IT too. I wonder how they are going to keep their cheap IT staff to service Walt Disney.. They refuse to pay the Americans a good wage, so they have all H-1B visas... I guess Walt Disney needs to hire Americans back or find a company who can provide service..

[TBP]

It’s a beginning.

[Fresh Wind]

I understand the phone banks in Calcutta are hiring.

[central_va]

Only to real sicko creeps would this ever be considered a bad thing.

I wonder what would happen if the Federal government stop kowtowing to Corporate globalists insatiable lust for cheap labor?

[Gay State Conservative]

Good news.I,personally,have a lot of respect for Indians...but that respect doesn’t go as far as allowing them to take jobs from Americans.

[codder too]

Send back all of Gulens charter school “teachers”. Turkey might need them.

[freedumb2003]

Future headline:

“Overnight the quality of IT management and programming code went up 200%”

[faithhopecharity]

Hire Americans who want to work first! The supposedly-American corporations have been getting away with importing these foreigners for a long time, years already, and it is 98 percent WRONG! I do acknowledge that a very rare case may arise where not a single American worker has the skills to do a very very very specialized job. Less than 2 percent of the time, probably less than 0.00002 percent of the time, really. Almost always there are unemployed Americans who could do the jobs.. almost always....let’s put an END to this terrible damage these companies are doing to our own people.

[freedumb2003]

>>SHELLY BANJO<<

Not when compared to her Hawaiian cousin Kiko Ukulele.

[CodeToad]

What many people probably don’t know is that Indians account for much of the illegal alien population. They come here on H1B visas and overstay them when they become unemployed.

[Amberdawn]

NOW is the time for us to e-mail and call our rep’s to support the end of H1-B visas and their abuse. Call people!

[captain_dave]

While I’m sure this will be a tragedy for those on an H1B visa, it is an unintended benefit for American university graduates who were told to study engineering, science, and technology so they could get a good job, but then found themselves unemployed because companies decided to import cheaper, and often stupider, tech workers from overseas.

This is a silver lining of a dark cloud.

[Night Hides Not]

Thanks to your post, I learned a new word today:

[central_va]

Less than 2 percent of the time, probably less than 0.00002 percent of the time, really.

The only time is usually when a new software product is being employed oversees and contractors go over there to train them. It doesn't happen very often and it is not common for India to develop products that we need training from them. It is always the opposite. Regardless 99.9% of H-1B visa are nothing but a way to cut costs by excluding "expensive" American IT workers.

[central_va]

Call the President

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